lunedì 31 agosto 2015

Reissue of a long-lost cassette from 1994 from two of Italy's most enterprising aural provocateurs.

Helix was a short-lived side project featuring Eraldo Bernocchi (Bill Laswell, Scorn, Rare Noise label) & Paolo Bandera (Sshe Retina Stimulants, Komplet), both members of Italian ambient-industrial group Sigillum S. Dispensing with the more abstract, semi-corrosive experimental nature of their parent group's work, Helix instead concentrated on intricate rhythm programming harnessed to fractalized synths & digitally birthed ambience. "Numbers" is part of the heritage of now-revered classic works by Atom Heart, Eyephone, Andrew Lagowski, early Autechre, & Metamatics, as well as labels such as GPR, Hypnotism, Clear, DeFocus, etc.

In other words, Helix channel a mode of all-encompassing IDM shot through with the kind of electronic soundscaping so little seen in this day & age. Another rescued relic from the innovative 90s, courtesy of Anodize's sublabel, Recovery, dedicated to bringing back into vogue forgotten yet vital nuggets of prescient electronica.

To
be released on October 31 2015 for the OEC label festival "X
CONGRESSO POST INDUSTRIALE" to be held in Bologna and
exclusively available at this event.

This
is the hypothetical continuation of previous work between Paolo
Bandera and Giovanni Mori, "Carnaliter Development",
published on double tape by Spatter Records in 2014: focusing on
themes dear to both projects, such as a certain type of sexuality and
its contextualization into today inevitable sexual marketing.
"Mannheim" shows the real, combined fury of the two
projects.